Re: VLC - subtitles - font encoding

Tibor Lorincz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I hope - this will be readeble. My english is too bad.
> 
> VLC is a excellent product. (I'm using a macos x 10.2.4, VLC version, 0.5.2)
> 
> I have the following problem. My subtitle file is in the slovak language.
> Therefore, a subtitles not showed correctly.
> Would be nice allow setting a subtitle font in the preferences or in the
> file->open panel. Need using a Central-European (CE) font. Linux users
> probably will want use a iso-8859/2 font.

Hopefully someone from the VLC team decides to support the new 
opensource matroska A/V container soon, and with it the new USF subtitle 
standard ( http://usf.corecodec.org ) .

USF is supported now in VobSub, one of the most used tools for subtitle 
creation on Windows, and is based on XML so it comes with UTF-8 to be 
able to support all languages, including asian/cyrillic letters , 
karaoke, etc. .

Gabest had made a DirectShow filter support in his DVobSub also, so in 
principal every DShow based player can play USF subs now, and one of the 
most used DShow players on Windows, The Core Media Player ( TCMP ), has 
a direct USF playback plugin ( not using DShow ) already.

USF will be muxed perfectly into the matroska container soon, thats why 
a lot of Asian people ( especially Japanese ) and anime fans have showed 
interest in matroska and USF, or even joined the development team recently.

We have a mplayer playback patch for matroska files already, but it wont 
be able to support USF yet, but only the simply ASCII based subs that 
are in matroska standard as well. Our Dshow parser skeleton can display 
MPEG4 video already, but also not read USF subs yet, but we are making 
good progress here. In the USF CVS on http://corecodec.org/projects/usf 
there is some working SRT2USF code already, so that SRT subs can be 
converted to USF .

matroska/USF support in VLC would be excellent !!!

Christian
http://www.matroska.org


http://usf.corecodec.org